criminal prosecution
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəl ˌprɒsɪˈkjuːʃən/
:
enjuiciamiento penal
- After the investigation, the district attorney decided to proceed with a criminal prosecution against the suspect.
- immunity from criminal prosecution
- threat of criminal prosecution
- subject to criminal prosecution
And they imposed an arms embargo, sanctions and urged that he'd be subject to criminal prosecution.
- And they imposed an arms embargo, sanctions and urged that he'd be subject to criminal prosecution.
Examples
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While virtually all professional medical illustrations are done for civil cases, criminal prosecutions could be a new field.
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In theory, taxpayers who engaged in such subterfuge risked detection and punishment, including criminal prosecution.
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I'll clean up these reports to avoid a criminal prosecution.
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I'm very confident that with the proper level of resource deployment we can very quickly gather the evidence necessary for criminal prosecution.
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Former Catholic priest, Maurice Marshall, can now face criminal prosecution for his time at a church in California.
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Be that as it may, the direct consequences of your actions would have been that two of the convicted burglars would have escaped criminal prosecution.
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The Department of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall control criminal prosecutions, free from any interference.
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The second distinction between criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits is the nature of the legal inquiry.
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The government did not seek criminal prosecution of any employees based on Saena Tech's bribery.
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Though taxpayers who come clean now usually can avoid fines and criminal prosecution, the IRS doesn't have infinite patience.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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An act in which the state brings a criminal charge against someone in court
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4.3
A legal case made against someone or a company for breaking the law
Antonyms
How Serious
- Formal
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- Formal
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- Formal
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjectival composition: 'criminal' specifies the type of 'prosecution', so the meaning 'legal proceedings against someone accused of a crime' follows directly from the constituents. This type-of + noun construction is cross-linguistically common and therefore readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The term criminal prosecution creates a simple picture: the criminal is the person accused and the prosecution is the team that takes the case to court to show the person did something wrong. So, criminal prosecution means 'the official process of charging and trying someone for a crime'.